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How far from here to heaven, 277.

How gentle God's commands, 205.

How happy is he born and taught, 22.

How many chatterers of a creed, 197.

How seldom, friends, a good great man, 33.

"How shall I a habit break," 259.

How we, poor players on life's stage, 134.

How wretched is the man with honors crowned, 39.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 39.

However others act towards thee, 27.

However the battle is ended, 20.

Humble we must be if to heaven we go, 98.

Humility, that low, sweet root, 100.

Hushing every muttered murmur, 110.

I am but clay in thy hands, 84.

I am content; I do not care, 106.

I am content. In trumpet, 107.

I am glad to think I am not bound, 187.

I am Liberty—God's daughter, 44.

I am of sinfulness and sorrows full, 183.

I am only a little sparrow, 200.

I am part of that Power, 208.

I am so weak, dear Lord, 109.

I am thine own, O Christ, 242.

I am with thee, my God, 228.

I asked for grace to lift me high, 159.

I asked the Lord that I might grow, 151.

I asked the Lord that I might worthier be, 56.

I asked the Lord to let me do, 58.

I bless thee, Lord, for sorrows sent, 149.

I bow my forehead to the dust, 177.

I bring my sins to thee, 245.

I cannot always see the way, 196.

I cannot choose; I should have liked so much, 53.

"I cannot do much," said a little star, 44.

I cannot say, Beneath the pressure of life's cares, 213.

I cannot see, with my small human sight, 188.

I cannot think but God must know, 97.

I could not find the little maid, 112.

I do not ask for any crown, 25.

I do not ask for earthly store, 179.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life, 156.

I do not ask that Thou shalt front the fray, 21.

I do not know thy final will, 220.

I do not know whether my future lies, 199.

I do not know why sin abounds, 194.

I feel within me A peace, 94.

I find no foeman in the road but fear, 18.

I go to prove my soul, 264.

I have a Friend so precious, 237.

I have a life with Christ to live, 134.

I have a treasure which I prize, 89.

I have done at length with dreaming, 50.

"I have labored in vain," a preacher said, 55.

I have no answer, for myself or thee, 208.

I have seen the face of Jesus, 239.

I have thee every hour, 224.

I hear it often in the dark, 229.

I hear it singing, singing sweetly, 173.

I hold him great who, for love's sake, 32.

I hold it as a changeless law, 26.

I hold it true, whate'er befall, 162.

I hold it truth with him who sings, 162.

I hold that, since by death alone, 274.

I honor the man who is willing to sink, 21.

I know no life divided, 190.

I know not, and I would not know, 109.

I know not if the dark or bright, 187.

I know not if 'twas wise or well, 74

I know not the way I am going, 183.

I know not what shall befall me, 197.

I know not what the future holds, 191.

I know the Hand that is guiding me, 201.

I know this earth is not my sphere, 120.

I like the man who faces what he must, 1.

I live for those who love me, 250.

I'll not leave Jesus, 233.

I'll sing you a lay ere I wing on my way, 148.

I look to Thee in every need, 178.

I love, and have some cause, 85.

I love my God, but with no love of mine, 131.

I love thy skies, thy sunny mists, 220.

I love thy will, O God, 218.

I made the cross myself whose weight, 155.

I met a child, and kissed it, 141.

I often say my prayers, 126.

I pray not that Men tremble, 102.

I pray thee, Lord, that when it comes to me, 11.

I pray you, do not use this thing, 167.

I pray, with meek hands, 219.

I preached as never sure to preach again, 87.

I reach a duty yet I do it not, 48.

I said it in the meadow path, 74.

I said, "Let me walk in the fields," 58.

I saw a farmer plow his land, 263.

I say it over and over, 190.

I say to thee—do thou repeat, 164.

I see the right and I approve, 266.

I shall not want; in desert wilds, 194.

I sing the hymn of the conquered, 30.

I sit within my room and joy to find, 226.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty, 49.

I stand in the great Forever, 228.

I stand upon the Mount, 90.

I stand upon the summit of my life, 271.

I thank thee, Lord, for mine unanswered prayers, 144.

I thank thee, Lord, that all my joy, 161.

I think, if thou couldst know, 154.

I've found a joy in sorrow, 240.

I've learned to prize the, 39.

I walk down the Valley of Silence, 132.

I want so many, many, 125.

I welcome all Thy sovereign will, 198.

I wonder if ever a song was, 96.

I worship thee, sweet will of God, 209.

I would be ready, Lord, 271.

I would not ask thee that my days, 98.

I would see Jesus. As I muse, 239.

Idlers all day about the market place, 55.

Idly as thou, in that old day, 174.

If any little word of mine, 75.

If every man's internal care, 114.

If God is mine then present things, 224.

If I could feel my hand, dear Lord, in thine 178.

If I could live to God for just one day, 256.

If I could only surely know, 206.

If I could see a brother, 74.

If I have faltered more or less, 151.

If I Him but have, 230.

If I knew you and you knew me, 69.

If I should die to-night, 67.

If I truly love the One, 164.

If I were dead I think that you, 265.

If I were told that I must die to-morrow, 214.

If Jesus came to earth again, 234.

If Jesus Christ is a man, 244.

If life's pleasures cheer thee, 247.

If no kindly thought or word, 54.

If none were sick and none were sad, 114.

If only he is mine, 238.

If suddenly upon the street, 163.

If the Lord should come in the morning, 229.

If the weather is cold don't scold, 148.

If the wren can cling to a spray, 198.

If this little world to-night, 262.

If thou art blest, Then let the sunshine, 102.

If thou canst plan a noble deed, 21.

If thou hast something bring thy goods, 27.

If thou hast the gift of strength, 65.

If to Jesus for relief, 200.

If we believed we should, 185.

If we knew the cares and sorrows, 70.

If we sit down at set of sun, 54.

If washed in Jesus' blood, 249.

If when I kneel to pray, 125.

If you cannot on the ocean, 59.

If you have a friend worth having, 77.

If you have a word of cheer, 77.

Immortal Love, forever full, 233.

In a napkin smooth and white, 45.

In a world where sorrow, 141.

In all I think or speak or do, 122.

In buds upon some Aaron's rod, 222.

In full and glad surrender, 81.

In heavenly love abiding, 90.

In humbleness, O Lord, I ask, 96.

In life's small things be resolute, 39.

"In pastures green?" Not always, 160.

In proud humility a pious man, 99.

In silence mend what ills deform, 65.

In some way or other, 183.

In spite of sorrow, loss, and pain, 18.

In the deed that no man knoweth, 102.

In the floods of tribulation, 158.

In the hush of April weather, 272.

In the June twilight, 273.

In the pleasant orchard closes, 161.

In the secret of his presence, 221.

In the still air the music, 151.

In vain they smite me, 186.

In wise proportion does a fond hand mingle, 183.

Into thy guiding hands, 80.

Is it true, O Christ in, 161.

Is life worth living? 253.

Is the work difficult? 20.

Is there for honest poverty, 24.

Is thy cruse of comfort failing, 52.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, 27.

It is bad to have an empty purse, 261.

It is coming! it is coming, 73.

It is enough—Enough just to be good, 38.

It is faith, The feeling, 183.

It is Lucifer, The son, 220.

It is no use to grumble and, 216.

It is not death to die, 272.

It is not mine to run, 98.

It is not prayer, This clamor, 129.

It is not the deed we do, 163.

It is not the wall of stone without, 35.

It isn't the thing you do, 251.

It is the evening hour, 206.

It is worth while to live, 39.

It matters little where I was born, 33.

It passeth knowledge, that dear love of thine, 239.

It singeth low in every heart, 275.

It's wiser being good than bad, 176.

It takes great strength to train, 9.

It was not anything she said, 38.

It was only a blossom, 61.

It was only a sunny smile, 62.

It were not hard, we think, 59.

Jesu is in my heart, 241.

Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult, 249.

Jesus, I love thee, not because, 240.

Jesus, I my cross have taken, 83.

"Jesus saith," and His deep, 62.

Jesus, still lead on, 122.

Jesus, the calm that fills my breast, 248.

Jesus, the very thought, 235.

Jesus, these eyes have never seen, 245.

Jesus, thou Joy of loving, 236.

Judge not; the workings of, 68.

"Judge the people by their actions," 69.

Just as God leads me I would go, 104.

Just to let thy Father do, 138.

Just where you stand in the conflict, 44.

Keep pure thy soul, 26.

Keep pushing—'tis wiser than sitting aside, 19.

Keep to the right, within and without, 23.

Know well, my soul, God's hand controls, 183.

Knowing this, that never yet, 175.

Knowing, what all experience serves to show, 26.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, 98.

Labor with what zeal we will, 102.

Laid on thine altar, O my Lord divine, 81.

Leave God to order all thy ways, 189.

Led by kindlier hand than ours, 110.

Let come what will, I mean to bear, 39.

Let him that loves his ease, 148.

Let me not die before I've done for thee, 212.

Let no one till his death Be called unhappy, 269.

Let not your heart be troubled, 198.

Let nothing disturb thee, 114.

Let nothing make thee sad, 88.

Let one more attest, 208.

Let praise devote thy work, 100.

Let the Loved One but smile, 231.

Let thy sweet presence light my way, 224.

Let to-morrow take care of to-morrow, 175.

Let us be content in work, 114.

Let us believe That there, 171.

Let us cry, All good things, 148.

Let us gather up the sunbeams, 148.

Life-embarked, out at sea, 277.

Life! I know not what, 276.

Life is a burden; bear it, 252.

Life is too short to waste, 263.

Life's burdens fall, its discords cease, 88.

Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace, 90.

Like the star That shines afar, 255.

Live while you live, the epicure would say, 261.

Lo here hath been dawning, 255.

Look not beyond the stars for heaven, 65.

Looking upward every, 117.

Lord, according to thy word, 199.

Lord and Father, great and holy, 167.

Lord, for the erring thought, 140.

Lord, for to-morrow and its, 255.

Lord, I delight in Thee, 195.

Lord, I have shut my door, 124.

Lord, in the strength of grace, 81.

Lord, let me not be too content, 120.

Lord, it belongs not to my care, 106.

Lord, make me quick to see, 121.

Lord of all being, throned afar, 221.

Lord, send thy light, 137.

Lord, shall we grumble when thy flame, 159.

Lord, speak to me, that I may speak, 135.

Lord, what a change within us, 129.

Lord, what is man, That thou, 159.

Love that asketh love again, 165.

Love took up the glass of time, 169.

Make haste, O man! to live, 260.

Make my mortal dreams, 122.

Man in his life hath three good friends, 277.

Man judges from a partial view, 78.

Man's plea to man is that he nevermore, 137.

Man was not made for forms, 25.

Manlike is it to fall into sin, 81.

Master of human destinies am I, 261.

May every soul that touches mine, 74.

Mechanic soul, thou must not only do, 65.

Men lose their ships, the, eager things, 205.

Methought that in a solemn church, 63.

More holiness give me, 119.

More things are wrought by prayer, 135.

Moses, the patriot fierce, became, 100.

Mrs. Lofty keeps a carriage, 108.

My business is not to remake myself, 40.

My conscience is my crown, 104.

My fairest child, I have no song to give you, 30.

My God, how wonderful thou art, 225.

My God, I heard this day, 227.

My God, I thank thee who hast, 139.

My God, I would not live, 186.

My God, is any hour so sweet, 123.

My God, my Father, while I stray, 213.

My heart is resting, O my, 89.

My Jesus, as thou wilt, 212.

My mind to me a kingdom, 104.

My prayer to the promise shall cling, 177.

My proud foe at my hands, 137.

My Saviour, on the word of truth, 116.

My sins and follies, Lord, 99.

My sorrows have not been so light, 162.

My soul shall be a telescope, 120.

My soul was stirred; I prayed, 45.

My spirit on thy care, 192.

My time is short enough at best, 27.

"My times are in thy hand," 189.

My whole though broken heart, 79.

My will would like a life of ease, 80.

Nanac the faithful, pausing once to pray, 229.

Nay, all by Thee is ordered, 195.

Nay, nay, do not tell me, 201.

Nay, not for place, but for the right, 13.

Nay, now if these things that you long to teach, 8.

Nay, why should I fear Death, 274.

Never a trial that He is not there, 206.

Never give up! it is wiser and better, 176.

Never go gloomily, man with a mind, 174.

New every morning is the love, 113.

New words to speak, new thoughts to hear, 65.

No care can come where God doth guard, 206.

No chance has brought this ill, 216.

No child of man may perish, 220.

No coward soul is mine, 21.

No endeavor is in vain, 39.

No help! nay, it is not so, 208.

No man is born into the world, 65.

No more my own, Lord Jesus, 84.

No more with downcast eyes go faltering on, 186.

No one is so accursed by fate, 76.

No service in itself is small, 61.

None but one can harm you, 27.

Nor love thy life, nor hate, 259.

Not a brooklet floweth, 204.

Not a dread cavern hoar, 127.

Not a sound invades the, 126.

Not always the path is, 143.

Not at the battle front, 13.

Not disabled in the combat, 156.

Not I but Christ be honored, 240.

Not in dumb resignation, 217.

Not in each shell the diver brings, 159.

Not in some cloistered cell, 71.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, 27.

Not in the solitude Alone may man, 76.

Not in our waking hours alone, 207.

Not on the gory field of fame, 12.

Not once or twice in our fair island story, 46.

Not only in the cataract and the thunder, 232.

Not ours nobility of this world's giving, 10.

Not so in haste, my heart, 185.

Not to the man of dollars, 78.

Not they alone who from the bitter strife, 2.

Not to thy saints of old alone dost Thou, 179.

Not what I am, O Lord, 165.

Not when with self dissatisfied, 157.

Nothing pays but God, 208.

O be in God's clear world, 148.

O, blessed is that man of whom, 36.

O, block by block, with sore and sharp endeavor, 161.

O brothers! are ye asking, 78.

O dwell in me, my Lord, 118.

O foolish heart, be still! 194.

O for a closer walk with man, 75.

O for a faith that will not shrink, 180.

O for a man to rise in me, 122.

O for the peace of a perfect trust, 195.

O Friend of souls! how blest the time, 236.

O give me the joy of living, 148.

O God! I thank thee for each sight, 80.

O God of truth, for whom alone, 121.

O God of truth, whose living word, 81.

O God, take the reins of my life, 79.

O God! whose thoughts are brightest light, 69.

O humble me! I cannot hide the joy, 99.

O how the thought of God attracts, 119.

O it is hard to work for God, 170.

O, I could go through all life's troubles, 101.

O I would live longer, I gladly would stay, 269.

O Jesus Christ, grow thou in me, 117.

O Jesus! Friend unfailing, 244.

O Jesus, I have promised, 247.

O Jesus! Jesus! dearest Lord, 242.

O Lord! at Joseph's humble, 211.

O Lord, how happy should we be, 195.

"O Lord, my God," I oft have said, 154.

O Lord, thy heavenly grace impart, 82.

O Love divine, that stooped to share, 168.

O Love is weak, 163.

O Love that wilt not let me go, 234.

O make me patient, Lord, 122.

O Master, let me walk, 131.

O matchless honor, all unsought, 62.

O may I join the choir invisible, 51.

O Name all other names above, 231.

O, never from thy tempted heart, 20.

O sad estate Of human wretchedness, 137.

O square thyself for use, 122.

O star of truth down shining, 10.

O that mine eyes might closed be, 118.

O the bitter shame and sorrow, 118.

O Thou by long experience tried, 104.

O thou so weary of thy self-denials, 157.

O thou unpolished shaft, 96.

O Thou who driest the mourner's tear, 155.

O thou who sighest for a broader field, 57.

O Thou, whose bounty fills, 140.

O tired worker, faltering on, 16.

O to serve God for a day, 252.

O trifling task so often done, 152.

O wad some power the giftie gie us, 102.

O, well for him whose will is strong, 11.

O who like thee, so calm, so bright, 238.

O why and whither? 191.

O words of golden music, 215.

O work thy works in God, 232.

O, yet we trust that somehow good, 172.

Oh, be in God's clear world, 148.

Of all the myriad moods, 119.

Oft when of God we ask, 158.

Oft, when the Word is on me, 65.

Often ornateness goes with greatness, 39.

On God for all events depend, 198.

On parent knees, a naked new-born child, 267.

On the red ramparts, 21.

On thee my heart is resting, 85.

On two days it steads not, 220.

Once, in the flight of ages past, 262.

Once this soft turf, this rivulet's sands, 14.

Once to every man and nation, 4.

One by one thy duties wait thee, 39.

One deed may mar a life, 18.

One part, one little part, 99.

One prayer I have—all prayers in one, 220.

One stitch dropped as we weave, 47.

One thing alone, dear Lord, 128.

One thought I have—my ample creed, 226.

One wept all night beside a sick man's bed, 266.

Only a seed—but it chanced, 64.

Only a smile. Yes, only a smile, 131.

Only for Jesus! Lord, keep it ever, 85.

Only those are crowned and sainted, 62.

Only to-day is mine, 83.

Open the door of your hearts, my lads, 176.

Open the shutters free and wide, 144.

Others shall sing the song, 97.

Our doubts are traitors, 186.

Our Father, through the coming year, 190.

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, 161.

Our yet unfinished story, 204.

Out from thyself, thyself depart, 87.

Out of the hardness of heart and will, 230.

Out of the night that covers me, 23.

Outwearied with the littleness and spite, 75.

Pain's furnace heat within me quivers, 157.

Patient, resigned and humble wills, 102.

Paul and Silas in their prison, 141.

Peace, perfect peace in this dark world of sin, 89.

Peace upon peace, like wave upon wave, 90.

Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, 180.

Persuasion, friend, comes not by toil, 76.

Pitch thy behaviour low, 97.

Pleased in the sunshine, 147.

Pleasures are like poppies spread, 263.

Pluck wins! It always wins, 19.

Pour forth the oil, pour boldly forth, 167.

"Praise God, from whom all blessings flow," 142.

Praise not thy work, but let thy work praise thee, 102.

Prayer is Innocence's friend, 132.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 127.

Prune thou thy words, 181.

Purer yet and purer, 115.

Put pain from out the world, 162.

Quiet from God! How beautiful, 230.

Quiet, Lord, my froward heart, 91.

Rabbi Jehosha had the skill, 220.

Rabia, sick upon her bed, 218.

Riches I hold in light esteem, 23.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, 140.

Round holy Rabia's suffering, 218.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, 41.

Saint Dominic, the glory of the schools, 203.

Saith the Lord, Vengeance is mine, 47.

Saviour, who died for me, 86.

Say, is your lamp burning, my brother, 66.

Say not, the struggle naught availeth, 172.

Says God: Who comes towards me, 207.

Search thine own heart, 102.

Secure in his prophetic strength, 64.

Serene I fold my hands and wait, 171.

Serve God and be cheerful, 143.

She brought her box of, 240.

She stood before a chosen few, 63.

Ships that pass in the night, 266.

Show me thy face, 228.

Shut your mouth, and open your eyes, 261.

Since all the riches of this world, 263.

Since first thy word awaked my heart, 86.

Since thy Father's arm sustains thee, 187.

Sit still, my child, 88.

Slightest actions often meet, 56.

Slowly fashioned, link by link, 260.

Small service is true service while it lasts, 65.

So he died for his faith, 2.

So live that when the mighty caravan, 266.

So live that, when thy summons comes, 265.

So long as life's hope-sparkle glows, 108.

So much to do; so little done, 261.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 49.

So, when a great man dies, 77.

Some evil upon Rabia fell, 157.

Some murmur, when their sky is clear, 108.

Some of your hurts you have cured, 106.

Some souls there are beloved of God, 231.

Somebody did a golden deed, 26.

Sometimes a light surprises, 193.

Sometime, when all life's lessons have been learned, 191.

Somewhere I have read of an aged monk, 60.

Sound an anthem in your sorrows, 145.

Source of my life's refreshing springs, 151.

Sow thou sorrow and thou shalt reap it, 141.

Sow thou thy seed, 61.

Speak thou the truth. Let others fence, 17.

Speak to him, thou, for he hears, 232.

Stainless soldier on the walls, 6.

Stand upright, speak thy thought, 21.

Stern daughter of the voice of God, 41.

Still hope! still act! 158.

Still raise for good the supplicating voice, 134.

Still shines the light of holy lives, 67.

Still, still with thee, 223.

Still will we trust, 196.

Stone walls do not a prison make, 24.

Strength for to-day is all that we need, 114, 255.

Strong are the walls around me, 82.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint, 165.

Sunset and evening star, 273.

Surrounded by unnumbered foes, 166.

Sweet is the pleasure, 92.

Sweet is the solace of thy love, 217.

Sweet-voiced Hope, thy fine discourse, 71.

Take the joys and bear the, 268.

Take thine own way with me, 210.

Take time to be holy, 136.

Take my life and let it be, 82.

Talk Faith. The world is better off, 186.

Talk happiness each chance you get, 148.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough, 142.

Talk not of wasted affection, 169.

Teach me, dear Lord, what thou wouldst have me know, 125.

Teach me, my God and King, 223.

Teach me the truth, Lord, 8.

Teach me to answer still, 208.

Teach me to live! 'Tis easier far, 260.

Tell me about the Master, 241.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 21.

That best portion of a good man's life, 65.

That life is long which answers life's great end, 255.

That love for one from which there doth not spring, 167.

That man is great, and he alone, 28.

That man may last, but never lives, 38.

That plenty but reproaches me, 70.

That thou mayst injure no man, 266.

That which he knew he uttered, 6.

The aim, if reached or not, 40.

The best men doing their best, 65.

The best will is our Father's will, 220.

The bird let loose in Eastern skies, 118.

The body sins not, 'tis the will, 186.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, 17.

The camel at the close of day, 136.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate, 277.

The child leans on its parent's breast, 193.

The childish smile is fair, 151.

The chivalry that dares the right, 21.

The clouds which rise with thunder, 196.

The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's, 31.

The cross on Golgotha can never save, 186.

The crowd of cares, the weightiest cross, 186.

The cry of man's anguish went up, 160.

The day is long and the day is hard, 229.

The dearest thing on earth to me, 247.

The deed ye do is the prayer ye pray, 127.

The deeds which selfish hearts approve, 42.

The end's so near, 272.

The eye with seeing is not filled, 38.

The fountain of joy is fed by tears, 162.

The glory is not in the task, 37.

The good are better made by ill, 162.

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, 274.

The hero is not fed on sweets, 11.

The Holy Supper is kept indeed, 65.

The homely words—how often read, 125.

The hours are viewless angels, 256.

The hours of rest are over, 256.

The inner side of every cloud, 148.

The kindly word unspoken, 78.

The King of love my Shepherd is, 247.

The king's proud favorite, 34.

The knightly legend on thy shield, 25.

The light of love is round his feet, 207.

The lily's lips are pure and white, 264.

The little sharp vexations, 137.

The longer on this earth we live, 48.

The look of sympathy, the gentle word, 57.

The Lord our God is clothed, 211.

The man is happy, Lord, 169.

The man is thought a knave or fool, 6.

The man who idly sits and thinks, 265.

The Man who Loved the Names of Things, 95.

The man whom God delights to bless, 161.

The Master came one evening to the gate, 73.

The mean of soul are sure, 40.

The miller feeds the mill, 265.

The mist denies the mountains, 176.

The Moving Finger writes, 253.

The night is mother of the day, 174.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, 159.

The poem hangs on the berry bush, 266.

The poem of the universe, 33.

The rich man's son inherits lands, 107.

The sands of time are sinking, 274.

The ship may sink, 276.

The simple, silent, selfless man, 40.

The sky is clouded, the rocks are bare, 211.

The smallest bark on life's, 77.

The Son of God goes forth to war, 5.

The soul contains a window, 140.

The star of the unconquered will, 2.

The stars shall fade away, 251.

The stars shine over the earth, 258.

The stormy blast is strong, 94.

The sun gives ever; so the earth, 56.

The thought of God, the thought of thee, 224.

The time for toil is past, 101.

The time is short, 265.

The toil of brain, or heart, or hand, 61.

The twilight falls, the night is near, 200.

The unpolished pearl can never shine, 155.

The way to make thy son rich, 111.

The wind that flows can, 210.

The winds that once the Argo bore, 10.

The wisest man could ask no more, 38.

The woman singeth at her spinning wheel, 127.

The word is great, and no deed is greater, 21.

The world is full of beauty, 48.

The world is growing better, 175.

The world is wide in time and tide, 188.

The world wants men, 8.

Thee will I love, my strength, 87.

Then draw we nearer day by day, 26.

Then, fainting soul, arise and sing, 180.

Then gently scan your brother man, 68.

Then let us smile when skies are gray, 141.

Then O my soul, be ne'er afraid, 198.

There are deep things of God, 121.

There are hearts which never falter, 29.

There are hermit souls that live, withdrawn, 66.

There are in this loud, stunning tide, 231.

There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, 257.

There are so many helpful things to do, 52.

There are three lessons, 175.

There are two words of light divine, 202.

There is a jewel which no Indian mine, 112.

There is a morning star, my soul, 175.

There is a safe and secret place, 190.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, 265.

There is an ancient story told, 168.

There is an eye that never sleeps, 128.

There is never a day so dreary, 198.

There is no death! the stars go down, 269.

There is no duty patent, 21.

There is no faith in seeing, 186.

There is no flock, however watched and tended, 149.

There is no great nor small, 212.

There is no human being, 148.

There is no love like the love of Jesus, 235.

There is no sense, as I can see, 216.

There is no vacant chair, 276.

There is peace in power; the men who speak, 92.

There lives and works a soul in all, 223.

There once was a man who bore a grudge, 78.

There was of old a Moslem saint, 218.

There was once a man who smiled, 140.

There was a man who prayed, 131.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 206.

There's a wideness in God's mercy, 165.

There's many a trouble, 147.

There's never a day so sunny, 173.

There's never a rose in all the world, 57.

There's not a craving in the mind, 234.

They are slaves who fear to speak, 17.

They do me wrong who say I come no more, 259.

They have no place in storied page, 34.

They never fail who die in a great cause, 1.

They outtalked thee, hissed thee, tore thee, 1.

They're richer who diminish their desires, 112.

They seemed to die on battle-field, 11.

They stand, the regal mountains, 146.

Think, and be careful, what thou art within, 122.

Think gently of the erring, 68.

Think not alone to do right, 262.

This above all: to thine own self be true, 27.

This be my prayer, from, 122.

This body is my house—it is not I, 275.

This for the day of life, 54.

This I beheld, or dreamed it, 261.

This is my creed, 25.

This is the gospel of labor, 53.

This is the highest learning, 99.

This is the ship of pearl, 116.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, 146.

This world's no blot for us, 266.

Thou broadenest out with every year, 119.

Thou cam'st not to thy place, 113.

Thou grace divine, encircling all, 164.

Thou knowest, Lord, the, 205.

Thou must be true thyself, 26.

Thou shalt not rob me, thievish time, 267.

Thou sweet, beloved will of God, 211.

Thou sweet hand of God, 160.

Thou that in life's crowded city, 46.

Thou who art touched with, 207.

Though life is made up of, 259.

Though love repine, and reason chafe, 27.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, 218.

Though thy name be spread abroad, 40.

Though time may dig the grave of creeds, 179.

Though troubles assail and dangers affright, 184.

Though trouble-tossed and torture-torn, 153.

Though world on world in myriad myriads roll, 32.

Thought is deeper than all, 265.

Three centuries before the Christian age, 37.

Three doors there are in, 129.

Three men went out one summer night, 261.

Through love to light, 168.

Through night to light, 142.

Through thee, meseems, the very rose, 231.

Through wish, resolve, and act, 102.

Thunder, lightning, fire, and rain, 198.

Thus far the Lord hath led us, 182.

Thy home is with the humble, Lord, 95.

Thy life's a warfare, thou a soldier, 17.

Thy name to me, thy nature grant, 118.

Thy nature be my law, 121.

Thy presence, Lord, the place doth fill, 232.

Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, 268.

Thy voice is heard through rolling drum, 168.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, 83.

Thy will, O God, is joy to me, 209.

Time is indeed a precious boon, 253.

Time to me this truth hath taught, 70.

Time was I shrank from what was right, 15.

'Tis a lifelong toil till our lump be leaven, 39.

'Tis Being, and Doing, and Having, 148.

'Tis finally, the man who, lifted high, 3.

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 232.

'Tis he whose every thought, 26.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad, 147.

'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, 266.

'Tis not alone in the sunshine, 160.

'Tis not the grapes of Canaan that repay, 186.

'Tis not the wealth that makes a king, 31.

'Tis not what man does, 40.

'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great, 32.

'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, 161.

'Tis the Almighty's gracious plan, 68.

To a darning-needle once, 73.

To be sincere. To look, 264.

To be the thing we seem, 27.

To change and change is life, 171.

To do or not to do; to have, 79.

To do the tasks of life, 12.

To halls of heavenly truth, 169.

To heaven approached a Sufi saint, 227.

To keep my health, 25.

To live by law, acting the law, 27.

To live, to live, is life's great joy, 232.

To long with all our longing powers, 131.

To love some one more dearly, 51.

To make rough places plain, 134.

To me 'tis equal whether love ordain, 87.

To play through life a perfect part, 29.

To stretch my hand and touch him, 128.

To thee, O dear, dear Saviour, 244.

To those who prattle of despair, 264.

To try each day his will to know, 143.

Tost on a sea of troubles, 92.

True happiness (if understood), 148.

True love shall trust, but selfish love must die, 163.

True wisdom is in leaning, 241.

True worth is in being, not seeming, 38.

"Trust is truer than our fears," 192.

Trust to the Lord to hide thee, 263.

Truth will prevail, 8.

Truths that wake to perish never, 277.

Truths would you teach, 36.

'Twas August, and the fierce sun, 234.

'Twas in the night the manna fell, 111.

'Twere sweet indeed to close our eyes, 12.

Two gifts God giveth, and he saith, 276.

Two men toiled side by side, 105.

Two went to pray? O, rather, 133.

Two worlds are ours; 'tis only, 232.

Unanswered yet the prayer your lips have pleaded, 124.

Unblemished let me live, 40.

Unheard, because our ears are dull, 232.

Unless above himself he can, 13.

Unveil, O Lord, and on us shine, 86.

Up and away, like the dew of the morning, 100.

Veiled the future comes, 174.

Vice is a monster of so hateful mien, 73.

Vulgar souls surpass a rare one, 40.

Walking along the shore one morn, 150.

Walking with Peter, Christ, 43.

We all acknowledge both thy power and love, 203.

We are building every day, 259.

We are living, we are dwelling, 18.

We are not angels, but we may, 231.

We bless thee for thy peace, 94.

We cannot kindle when we will, 7.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, 146.

We live in deeds, not years, 264.

We look along the shining ways, 161.

We look too far for blessings, 111.

We may question with wand of science, 132.

We must live through the weary winter, 161.

We say, and we say, and we say, 264.

We scatter seeds with careless hand, 67.

We see not, know not; all our way, 216.

We shape ourselves the joy or fear, 264.

We take our share of fretting, 145.

We thank thee, gracious Father, 270.

We who have lost the battle, 30.

We will speak on, 18.

We would fill the hours with the sweetest things, 254.

We would see Jesus—for the shadows lengthen, 243.

We would see Jesus! we have longed to see him, 246.

We would see Jesus when our hopes are brightest, 248.

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, 40.

Welcome the shadows; where they blackest are, 113.

Well to suffer is divine, 20.

What can it mean? Is it aught to him, 207.

What grace, O Lord, and beauty shone, 241.

What I am, what I am not, 25.

What if some morning, when the stars are paling, 267.

What imports Fasting or feasting, 264.

What is life? 'Tis not to, 266.

What is the use of worrying, 94.

What is the world? A wandering maze, 59.

What makes a hero? not success, not fame, 7.

What matter will it be, O mortal man, 109.

What might be done if men were wise, 74.

What most you wish and long for, 197.

What pleaseth God with joy receive, 215.

What secret trouble stirs, 93.

What shall I do lest life in silence pass, 28.

What shall I pack up to carry, 258.

What shall I sing for thee, 238.

What shall thine "afterward" be, 152.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted, 49.

What though the dark close round, 258.

What various hindrances we meet, 126.

What weight of woe we owe to thee, 121.

What will it matter in a little while, 64.

Whate'er God wills, let, 216.

Whate'er my God ordains is right, 188.

Whatever dies, or is forgot, 55.

Whatever road I take, it joins the street, 232.

Whatever you are—be that, 27.

When courage fails and, 44.

When courting slumber, 231.

When falls the hour of evil chance, 17.

When God afflicts thee, think he hews a rugged stone, 162.

When He who, sad and weary, 64.

When I have time so many things I'll do, 257.

When in the storm it seems to thee, 180.

When is the time for prayer, 126.

When it drizzles and drizzles, 114.

When on my day of life the night is falling, 270.

When on the fragrant sandal tree, 167.

When prayer delights thee least 127.

When, spurred by tasks unceasing or undone, 91.

When success exalts thy lot, 32.

When the storm of the mountains, 243.

When the sun of joy is hidden, 176.

When thou art fain to trace, 102.

When thou hast thanked thy God, 160.

When thou turnest away from all, 219.

When thou wakest in the morning, 246.

When thy heart with joy o'erflowing, 71.

When wilt thou save the people, 75.

When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean, 88.

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, 12.

Where cross the crowded ways of life, 76.

Where'er I look one Face alone I see, 232.

Whether we climb, whether we plod, 13.

Whichever way the wind doth blow, 108.

While I sought happiness she fled, 49.

While thus to love he gave his days, 13.

Who bides his time, and day by day, 105.

Who counts himself as nobly born, 35.

Who does the best his circumstance allows, 44.

Who drives the horses of the sun, 113.

Who gives, and hides the giving hand, 58.

Who heeds not experience, 265.

Who is as the Christian great, 37.

Who learns and learns, and acts not, 255.

Who liveth best? Not he whose sail, 180.

Who loves, no law can ever bind, 169.

Who ne'er has suffered, he has lived but half, 161.

Who never doubted never half believed, 186.

Who seeks for heaven alone, 76.

Whoever plants a leaf beneath the sod, 193.

Why comes temptation but for men to meet, 16.

Why fret thee, soul, 94.

Why not leave them all with Jesus, 242.

Why wakes not life the desert bare and lone, 265.

Why win we not at once what we in prayer require, 137.

With comrade Duty, in the dark, 31.

With fame in just proportion envy grows, 40.

With patient course thy path of duty run, 198.

With silence only as their benediction, 156.

With strength of righteous purpose, 196.

Without haste and without rest, 250.

Work for some good, be it ever so slowly, 65.

Worry and Fret were two little men, 197.

Wouldst thou from sorrow find a sweet relief, 161.

Wouldst thou go forth to bless, 65.

Yes, Lord, one great eternal yes, 194.

Yes, Lord. Yet some must, 54.

Yes, we do differ when we most agree, 184.

Yet I argue not Against thy hand, 175.

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, 197.

Yet Love will dream and Faith will trust, 275.

Yet sometimes glimmers on my sight, 173.

Ye who would have your features florid, 254.

You can never tell when you do an act, 59.

You say, "Where goest thou?" 267.

You will find that luck, 21.



INDEX TO FIRST LINES IN APPENDIX

A fire-mist and a planet, 283.

A good man never dies, 283.

A rose to the living is more, 287.

Anew we pledge ourselves to Thee, 287.

Be strong! We are not here to play, 278.

But let my due feet never fail, 286.

Canst thou see no beauty nigh? 287.

Count that day really worse than lost, 287.

Do you go to my school? 283.

Father of mercies, thy children, 282.

Feel glum? Keep mum, 287.

For radiant health I praise not, 285.

For the right against the wrong, 287.

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, 282.

Give us men! strong and stalwart, 286.

How shall we tell an angel, 282.

I lay me down to sleep, 281.

I lift my head and walk my ways, 281.

I sent my soul through the Invisible, 287.

I will not doubt though, 286.

If by one word I help another, 287.

"If I have eaten my morsel alone," 284.

If I lay waste and wither up, 278.

In those clear, piercing, piteous eyes, 280.

It fortifies my soul to know, 280.

It was only a glad "Good morning," 287.

Lord, let me make this rule, 279.

Love thyself last: cherish those hearts, 286.

Milton! thou shouldst be living, 285.

My darling went unto the seaside, 281.

Never elated while one man's oppressed, 283.

No distant Lord have I, 278.

O Lord, I pray that for this day, 278.

O Sentinel at the loose-swung door, 282.

O, the little birds sang east, 287.

O Thou who lovest not alone, 285.

O, though oft depressed and lonely, 287.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, 286.

The gifts that to our breasts we fold, 287.

The wounds I might have healed, 286.

There's a craze among us mortals, 284.

Weary of all this wordy strife, 279.

What makes a man great? 284.

What matter, friend, though you and I, 280

When over the fair fame of friend, 285.

When the other firms show dizziness, 284.

Wherever now a sorrow stands, 287.

Why be afraid of Death, 279.

Why do we cling to the skirts of sorrow? 286.

You think them "out of reach," 281.

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BOOKS BY JAMES MUDGE

POEMS WITH POWER TO STRENGTHEN THE SOUL

HEART RELIGION, AS DESCRIBED BY JOHN WESLEY

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: EXEMPLIFIED IN THE LIVES OF ILLUSTRIOUS CHRISTIANS

FENELON: THE MYSTIC

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